Some Middlesbrough stats from this season

TeaCider

TeaCider

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Found these on Twitter.

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I'm actually surprised that we've scored the fourth most set pieces goals in the league this season, it felt like we struggled for so long with scoring from them that it never really sank in that we were starting to do it consistently again.
 
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4th worst passing accuracy, and 4th lowest number of passes, a stat that won't surprise anyone.
Hooooof.
 
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Third lowest number of shots faced, which makes it worse with some of the goals we've conceded.

About mid-table for our number of shots on the opposition goal.

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Only 2 teams have faced fewer shots on target, but 12 teams have conceded fewer goals than us.
That's a shocker.

Middling with number of shots on target of our own.
 
Very suprised about 16 goals from setplays. Didn't we score 4 or 5 last season? (or maybe the one before)

Cardiff with 26 goals is stunning. It helps if you have a guy who launches into the box with a throw from the hallway line. Also Moore and Morrison.
 
S7DiscoDown said:
Very suprised about 16 goals from setplays. Didn't we score 4 or 5 last season? (or maybe the one before)

Cardiff with 26 goals is stunning. It helps if you have a guy who launches into the box with a throw from the hallway line. Also Moore and Morrison.
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Under Pulis we went over 200 days without scoring from a set piece, which is a baffling stat for a Pulis side.
 
We've had the fewest non-English players make an appearance in the Championship (8), and that's counting Saville, Morsy, Bolasie, Archer and Assombalonga as non-English for footballing purposes, despite all 5 being raised here.

Only 3 clubs had a smaller squad size than us this season, which I think showed given how badly injuries impacted us.
 
Blackburn look a bit hard done by, after briefly looking at a couple of those charts, may be a force to be reckoned with next year if they spend a couple of quid.

Not surprised our set pieces are back up where they should be, we had been missing out on free goals there. We've usually been a decent set-piece side over the last decade, but Pulis team was a weird anomaly, as we had two prize set-piece targets (Ayala and Flint), among others, and that also rolled over into Woodgates short reign. The years before with Karanka were good and we look to be back with that too, this year probably better as delivery has got much, much better, albeit I think our "targets" are marginally worse.
 
interesting stuff in there as you say and some I agree with. Confirms Betteneli being the worst keeper in the league. Akpom and Britt had the worst service in the League for their low number of goals. Thats debatable to say it wouldn't have mattered who was up front.
 
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I don't think this holds up at all, barring the Premier League seasons and double figures up there for a striker in a promoted side is often the exception rather than the rule.

In the Championship, there's only really the Cardiff promotion season and this season that you could say a striker has struggled to reach double figures and I think it's guaranteed Watmore would have if he'd played the full 46 games, he got 9 in 30.
Even last season, Assombalonga got 5 in 8 games under him.

Cardiff in 16/17, he took over with them in the relegation zone in October and Zohore scored 12 goals in 25 games for him.

Rotherham in 2016, he was there for 16 games and took over a side 7 points from safety, Derbyshire and Best both got 4 goals in those 16 games.
That's in a third of a season so I think there's a fair chance one would have got to double figures if he'd had the full season.

Becchio got 5 in 15 games under Warnock in 2012 and then 16 in 26 games under Warnock at Leeds in 2012/13, before being sold in January.

Taraabt got 19 and Helguson got 13 at QPR in 2010/11

Ambrose got 15 at Crystal Palace in 2009/10
Morrison got 16 in 2007/08, though 2 were before Warnock took over.
 
Zoophonic said:
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That's why I found it kinda bizarre that we brought Warnock in because all of the spiel coming out of the club when they appointed Woodgate was that we were going to do an Ajax kind of model. Woodgate obviously wasn't the right man for the job but the idea should have been that we drop in another progressive type of coach into the role that works with the players the club have signed.

Even if we used Warnock just to keep us up, it made no sense giving him another season. Wouldn't surprise me if all the stuff about Ajax was just b***ks to justify employing Woodgate.
 
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